This “Step Brothers” clip hit a day or two ago, but we avoided it cause we didn’t want to see any spoilers. Turns out it’s a deleted scene from the movie which we saw last night. Without giving away too much or giving too much of a review, hopefully, “Step-Brothers” was wildly ridiculous and spectacularly absurd. So much so we were kind of dumbstruck afterwards. We’d forgotten it was R-Rated and the film is kind of a hard R. It was retarded in the best and worst ways possible and some critics are probably going to hate it, and Ferrell fans might possibly adore it. It’s really hard to say. Some way-out segments of the film almost pushed the good-taste envelope too far and there were a couple times the film actually lost the audience. But the more wrong and wildly inappropriate the humor is the harder we tend to laugh for better or worse.
Directed by Adam Mckay, produced by Judd Apatow and starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins and featuring a stellar jackass comedic turn by Adam Scott (“Veronica Mars” and a small cameo in “Knocked Up”) we’re actually wildly curious what other people thought about the film. We’re still a little unsure ourselves, or at least we’ll reserve judgement for a few days. We’ve probably already said too much.
The film features a shit-ton of pop songs including tracks Vampire Weekend (“A Punk,” which kicks off the film) LCD Soundsystem (the same trailer song), Dizee Rascal, Vanilla Ice, Billy Joel, Q-Tip (“Breathe & Stop”), Hall & Oates (“You Make My Dreams Come True” from the trailer), Dillated Peoples, Cheesburger, The Kinks (“Father Christmas”) and a score by Jon Brion which features members of Wilco and Deerhoof at times (the latter of which you can really hear the influence of in spots).
Listen: The Kinks – “Father Christmas”
Listen: Vampire Weekend – “A Punk”